Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-10-25
THE COURTS ORDER.
ARGUMENT P0R 4 WRIT OF ERROR To BE
MADE on THURSDAY.
The Consideration Of the Anarchists Casss-ImpOrtant
Business Transacted by the Supreme Court
The Prohibition Cases Coming Up
Testing Directors Responsibility

WASHINGTON, October 24.-The formal
announcement was made in the United
States Supreme Court to-day that argu-
ment Tor the application tor the writ OF
error in the Anarchist cases will he heard
on Thursday next.
Attorney General Hunt, OF Illinois, who
was present when the announcement was
made, said he would be ready to submit
printed briefs on Thursday, and intimated
that be might he permitted to make an
oral argument also.
The following is the text OF the order
made by the court to-day in the case OF
the condemned Chicago Anarchists upon
the motion of their counsel for the allow
ance of writ of error to the Supreme
Court of the State of Illinois:
''FollowiDgis is the precedent in Twitchell
Vs. the Commonwealth, : Wall 32l, We
have permitted this motion TO be made in
open court, at the suggestion OfMr. Justice
Harlan, to whom the application was pre-
sented, on account Of the urgency Of the
case, and its Importance. But, as was said
in that case, 'writs of error to the State
Courts have never been allowed as right,
that is to say, OF course, and it is the duty
of him TO whom an application for such
writ is made, TO ascertain from an exami-
nation of TIE record of the State Court,
whether any question, cogniZable here on
appeal, was made and decided in the proper
Court OF the State and whether the case on
the face of the record will Justify the allow
ance of the writ
"Deeming that the proper practice, we
will hear counsel on Thursday next in sup
port Of this motion, not only upon the
point whether any Federal questions were
actually made and decided in the Supreme
Court of the state, bat also upon the char
acter OF those questions, so that we may
determine whether they are such as to
make il proper for Us to bring the case
here for review. We have caused the At.
torney- General of Illinois to be informed
that the motion will be heard at tbe time
stated"
The motion to advance the Iowa and
Georgia prohibition cases on the docket OF
the Supreme Court of the United States
was denied to-day. The cases involve
some questions which were presented by
the case of Sciebold < Hogelin, already ar
gued. The Attorney General of Kansas,
who, by reason of misspprehensiOn, did
not appear to argue the latter case orally,
was in the court room this morning, and
tiled petition for leave to make oral ar
gument now, notwithstanding the fact
that the court has already taken the case I'M
der adyiscment. The question presented by
this case is regarded as a very important
one. since it involves the constitutionality
of ali the prohibition legislation since the
adoption of the l4th amendment, which
docs not provide for compensation to brew
ers and distillers, for value Of the property
destroyed by forcihle closing of their es-
tablishments.
Attorney General Garland submitted to
Court to-day a motion TO have advanced
for early hearing the case Of the receiver
OF the First National Bank OF Buffalo, \.
Y, against Elbridge Spaulding and Others,
which involves the question Of the respOn-
sihility OF the directors of national banks
for negligence in the performance of their
duties. The motion to advance is made al
the request of the Comptroller of the Cur
renCY.